#occasion

Millions of people die every day. Everyone's got to go sometime. I've came by this particular tumor honestly. If you smoke, which I did for many years very heavily with occasional interruption, and if you use alcohol, you make yourself a candidate for it in your sixties. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

#came #candidate #day #did #die

Fishing is much more than fish. It is the great occasion when we may return to the fine simplicity of our forefathers. ↗

— Herbert Hoover

#fine #fish #fishing #forefathers #great

There are only two occasions when Americans respect privacy, especially in Presidents. Those are prayer and fishing. ↗

— Herbert Hoover

#fishing #occasions #only #prayer #presidents

It ain't a bad plan to keep still occasionally even when you know what you're talking about. ↗

— Kin Hubbard

#bad #even #keep #know #occasionally

People, like sheep, tend to follow a leader - occasionally in the right direction. ↗

— Alexander Chase

#follow #leader #like #occasionally #people

Life isn't so complicated for children. They have more time to think about the really important things. That's why I occasionally moralise in my children's books in a way I wouldn't dare when writing for adults. ↗

— Nina Bawden

#books #children #complicated #dare #i

Whenever the occasion arose, he rose to the occasion. ↗

— Jonathan Brown

#occasion #rose #whenever

We escaped the last big bursting of a bubble - the dotcom bubble - with a relatively light U.S. recession. On that occasion, the world economy found its way back on track fairly quickly. ↗

— Evan Davis

#big #bubble #bursting #economy #escaped

Prose on certain occasions can bear a great deal of poetry; on the other hand, poetry sinks and swoons under a moderate weight of prose. ↗

— Walter Savage Landor

#certain #deal #great #great deal #hand

Circumstantial evidence is occasionally very convincing, as when you find a trout in the milk, to quote Thoreau's example. ↗

— Arthur Conan Doyle

#evidence #example #find #milk #occasionally